If there was a drug to make you NT, would you take it?

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Hell no, even though being autistic can be hell sometimes I wouldn't change it for anything. It's made me who I am today, besides I kinda like it sometimes

You're not a moron, morons are those who doesn't understand differences at all... And I still don't consider you as a NT, because you seem a little too hyper

Heck yes, I'd like to experience way more in life than what I'm going through right now.

These ''if you could get rid of your Autism, would you?'' threads are getting kind of boring now. If I reply to the question, I start ranting on and on because there are a million reasons why I want to be NT but I have to explain them properly because I'm not the type to think that all NTs have it good. But I can't be bothered to go through all of it again, maybe another day I will, or when the next thread asking the same thing pops up.

I would say no, it would change my personality because aspergers is me. It's traits both good and bad help define me from others. I wouldn't want to lose what others know as me and like as me.

I can relate to this a little. Feline 82', I wish they did have a pill for moron NT's. I was joking a little to get your attention.

People think I have ADHD and I don't. It's kinda painful for me so I try to avoid it but you guys seem like an ok group:
I was lonely as a kid because my parents moved a lot and my brother was older and went to a new school. My mom started working 12 hours. Dad split. I craved attention and I started acting out a LOT. I learned how to make people laugh, I learned what buttons I could push. I go over the line all the time. But I learned humor so well that people expect humor from me and often laugh while I'm raising my hand in class to say something serious. I never got over the lonely feeling from a kid and I still crave that attention. I have Excessive NT Disorder btw...

If I were to 'undue' that loneliness would that mean I wouldn't be funny? actually that's a big problem for me with antidepresants.* The can kill my sense of humor. If I don't take them I can light a room on fire with joke, do crazy stand up but I'll also feel alarmingly low and I could become suicidal.

Would unduing my loneliness take away my insightfulness and caring? But the loneliness SUCKS. I could go either way.

*the best comidians suffer from depression and often bipolar disorder and fought to balance themselves sane via medicine and funny.

I am who I am. If you stripped all the Asperger's traits from me, I'd be somebody else entirely, and I would probably hate that person except that there wouldn't be anything left of me _to_ hate her. It'd be like dying.

I could see where some people who are younger and not formed yet might want an informed decision to take the magic pill, knowing what's ahead, and that it _isn't_ yet firmly part of their personality.

Joe90, I do understand your problems with it, because you seem to have most of the downside. I also know what you mean about this thread coming up over and over. Why don't you find one of your old ones, the best one, or write a new one slowly and carefully so that you get it all said, and keep that on your computer (I'd keep it in text-edit). Then when it comes up again, you could just paste that in. I did that with my history with antidepressants (and that is NOT Asperger's, though it's probably related, because I didn't know what was different about me when I was younger), when _that_ kept coming up: somebody wanted to know what meds everybody else was on about twice a week, and what had not worked (for the individual) and explaining about individual reactions to psychodrugs. And wouldn't you know it, I haven't needed to use it since! ;^)

I want to learn to deal with my issues, so i wouldn't take a drug for it, sure medicine can help but i'm pretty sure if they developed something like that it would probably be far from perfect :/

F#@K NO

I would take it. Everybody says ''oh it's what makes me who I am'' but I don't like who I am, I don't like being this person. I will write down a few things that it would be like if I didn't have this s**t, and I'm not going to waste time putting stupid little personality traits like ''I wouldn't be able to see details'' or ''I wouldn't have my talent on the piano'' because those are traits anybody could have and won't change my life completely if I didn't have them (I don't associate everything I do, think, say and like with having AS).

If I could get rid of this s**t....

....I wouldn't be getting jealous of relatives and friends getting boy/girlfriends due to my loneliness (not only that, if I did get jealous as an NT, I would be able to deal with it in a better way instead of having angry fits over it)

....I wouldn't have an anxious urge to cover my ears each time I walk past the telephone or smoke alarm at home

....I would probably have a job by now, yes I know with today's financial climate it's hard for everyone (especially youngsters) to get into employment but I would still have more chance if I were NT because there wouldn't be as many barriers, and there are retail jobs about which most people take when they're desperate, but I can't do retail because of my s**t social skills, again.

....when filling out application forms for jobs, I wouldn't have the ''oh shall I tell the employer about my AS, or shouldn't I?'' dilemma, I would just write N/A in the disability box and move on, or if I did have a physical health disability, it most probably wouldn't get in the way too much of getting the job because it seems that only Autism and ADHD (and a few other mental conditions like that) are the most misunderstood conditions in the world.

....I would be able to appear more normal, without there being something odd about me that people (including myself!) can't quite put their finger on and then spending the rest of my life feeling angry with myself for being this way.

....I wouldn't be causing so much stress at home, like fussing if the drawer is not shut properly or getting upset by everyday noises what most people can block out or ignore.

....I would be able to go out clubbing and get along with other NTs in my peers and be able to fit in better without being considered ''odd''.

....my brother wouldn't be depressed. I figure it's because of me, because of all the attention I took up from my parents when I was a child, and my brother often felt quite left out, and now he's grown up with low self-esteem and feels depressed, and I feel he only gets out of the house to escape my insanity. I also feel that he has developed PDD-NOS of AS because of growing up with an awkward sister with AS.

....I wouldn't be having insane outbursts over silly things, and the silly things wouldn't seem so big to me if I was NT. Like now I've got it into my head that I hate snow and can't deal with it when it is forecasted, and I really go into one if snow is being forecasted. Even if I didn't like snow as an NT, I still would react in a more appropriate way, without losing my cool.

....when i go on holidays with my family, I wouldn't worry about feeling excluded when my cousins are making friends or being chatted up by hot lads or sexy girls, because I would most probably have as much chance as them of being noticed, instead of being the unconfident shy freak in the corner with no instinct to be able to join in.

....I wouldn't be such an easy target for bullies, I know some NTs can be but they will always have more friends to back them up, and if they find it hard to make friends then they probably have some sort of condition like social phobia or PTSD or something, but I'm not pining to be an NT like that, I'm just pining to be an average NT with normal social skills.

....everyone in my family would then be NTs.

If I was NT I might probably still have one of these traits. I might have two. But to have all of them, it makes life not worth living. It's soul destroying, and it turns life into one big obstacle. How can other Aspies say they like having it?

It's hard to choose. I do like being smart and talented and I don't know if I would still have my love for learning or brutal honesty if I was NT. I don't know if I would still be into the things I love. Yet at the same time, I'm a bit tired of being left out of friends' conversations due to constantly feeling lost when in them, and I feel bad for getting angry at my mother for misplacing things in my room and for cleaning it without my consent. I know she was only trying to help and I usually feel very bad about it once I've calmed down. I hate being too straight-foward with my opinions and hurting people as a result, or inadvertantly being a doormat for others and easily being used for their own gains. I don't know. I probably would take it, if only to see what it's like at least. I probably wouldn't if it was permanent though.

I'd probably overdose on it.

I'm also getting sick of these threads. For every similar thread that pops up after this one, my answer will still be no. Another thing that I'd like to say is that if I wanted a cure, I wouldn't be using avatars of a suspected Aspie from time to time.

no,there isnt anything wrong w me,there are w ppl who make rude comments to me {mother,family } .I would take meds to make my epilepsy go away forever tho.

I'll probably try it. Though I strongly suspect feeling like an NT might drive me nuts. I mean if you've been this way all your life, and suddenly your personality and view of the world changed, even your family and friends would think you're going crazy.